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                    [Title] => Corn growers urge DA to stop adulteration of fertilizer bags
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Corn growers are asking the Department of Agriculture to stop the alleged adulteration and underweighing of fertilizer bags in various provinces.

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The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) warned the public yesterday that marijuana teabags sold by street pushers may contain “extenders” such as dried papaya and kamote leaves.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 276729 [Title] => DTI warns public against adulterated cement bags [Summary] => The Department of Trade and Industry’s Bureau of Product Standards (DTI-BPS) warned the public yesterday against a cement agent that supplies and sells adulterated cement or buriki in the market.

At the same time, the DTI also urged local cement retailers to moderate their price increases and refrain from raising cement prices due to the recently approved power rate hike.
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It is often said that health is wealth, but you need wealth to stay healthy in this country. Government hospitals are overcrowded. Private hospitals turn patients away unless they can make a deposit. Only a handful of hospitals offer world-class treatment. The country's blood supply is not 100 percent safe. Certain treatments such as dialysis, heart bypass surgery and chemotherapy are beyond the reach of the poor. Drugs and other pharmaceutical products are expensive. And even if you can afford your medicine, it might be fake or adulterated. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1193631 [AuthorName] => by Editorial [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87734 [Title] => '30% of drugs in market fake' [Summary] =>

About 30 percent of drugs sold in the market today are fake, and a group of health care experts warned yesterday that the figure might rise when the government allows the importation of unregistered medicines.

The Pharmaceutical Health Care Association of the Philippines (PHAP) said the selling of fake drugs is a multimillion-peso industry and this is expected to boom as soon as the Department of Health approves its so-called parallel importation of drugs.

The government actually allows the importation of drugs as long as these are registered with the Bureau of Food and Drug [DatePublished] => 2000-04-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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Corn growers are asking the Department of Agriculture to stop the alleged adulteration and underweighing of fertilizer bags in various provinces.

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The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) warned the public yesterday that marijuana teabags sold by street pushers may contain “extenders” such as dried papaya and kamote leaves.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 276729 [Title] => DTI warns public against adulterated cement bags [Summary] => The Department of Trade and Industry’s Bureau of Product Standards (DTI-BPS) warned the public yesterday against a cement agent that supplies and sells adulterated cement or buriki in the market.

At the same time, the DTI also urged local cement retailers to moderate their price increases and refrain from raising cement prices due to the recently approved power rate hike.
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It is often said that health is wealth, but you need wealth to stay healthy in this country. Government hospitals are overcrowded. Private hospitals turn patients away unless they can make a deposit. Only a handful of hospitals offer world-class treatment. The country's blood supply is not 100 percent safe. Certain treatments such as dialysis, heart bypass surgery and chemotherapy are beyond the reach of the poor. Drugs and other pharmaceutical products are expensive. And even if you can afford your medicine, it might be fake or adulterated. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1193631 [AuthorName] => by Editorial [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87734 [Title] => '30% of drugs in market fake' [Summary] =>

About 30 percent of drugs sold in the market today are fake, and a group of health care experts warned yesterday that the figure might rise when the government allows the importation of unregistered medicines.

The Pharmaceutical Health Care Association of the Philippines (PHAP) said the selling of fake drugs is a multimillion-peso industry and this is expected to boom as soon as the Department of Health approves its so-called parallel importation of drugs.

The government actually allows the importation of drugs as long as these are registered with the Bureau of Food and Drug [DatePublished] => 2000-04-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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